What's the procedure to resize the /boot partition?

[gamma754293]

I am using Parrot Home in an VirtualBox VM.

After a few updates of the kernel, the /boot partition has ran out of space.

I tried to resize the / partition (mounted on /dev/sda5) (I’m using 1 TB virtual hard drive), so I resized it to be 2 GB smaller, but it wouldn’t let me put that free space in front of the extended logical partition where / (or /dev/sda5 is located).

I tried to create a new partition /dev/sda6 (size=1 GiB) and then cloned the original boot partition (/dev/sda1) onto it, unmounted the original, mounted the new /dev/sda6 partition as /boot, updated grub and that seemed to work fine.

But it’s when I tried to shift the partitions around so that I can have have the /boot partition in front of the extended, logical partition, and that’s when I broke the partition table, so clearly, I am doing something wrong.

What would be the better way for me to achieve this goal?

1. Free up a total of 2 GiB from /dev/sda5 (which is mounted on /).

2. Make it so that there is 1 GiB in front of the extended, logical partition.

3. Resize /dev/sda1 so that it would be 1 GiB instead of ~ 366 MiB.

4. Resize /dev/sda5 again so that it would take up the extra slack in space once again.

(Because I toasted the partition table whilst trying to move the partitions around using fdisk (the system was booted into init s), I ended up toasting the entire system, so I am currently in the process of re-importing the Oracle Virtual Box Appliance back onto my system so that I can try this again.)

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[danterolle]

Hello. First you could remove the old kernels from the boot partition, so that they are within the default size. It is a solution but it is not the solution. You probably forgot to generate a new UUID for the new partition. However personally I would follow this procedure (not the first solution proposed, but the last one): partitioning - Resize /boot partition - Ask Ubuntu